Runny Mutes

[meagan]

So it seems as if I am having problems all the time when in reality Autumn is doing well...just having some issues with her mutes. After her bloody mute ordeal last week the vet said it looked as if she had broken a blood vessel or something near the opening of her vent....

Well everything got better and then two days ago she started to have runny mutes. Its not gone away. The color ranges any where from brown normal fecal coloring to a yellowish brown or even a very dark green. So what does this mean? She is still acting normal, eating as much as she can and is drinking water like normal and not at an unusually long pace and not drinking more often than normal.

I worked her on the creance the other day and she is about 300 grams over...but I wanted her to stretch her wings. She came without problems at about 50-60 feet but I noticed that she was out of breath after about the fifth run, but nothing with her mouth open just a bit of heavy panting but without the mouth open. I assume its because she is very over hunting weight.

She still bounces around her mews like normal. So can she possible just have a "cold" seeing as we have had a ton of rain with weather in the mid 70's and then dropping into the low 20's and its still really wet outside. Or is it maybe because she ate alot of protein in her food (I fed her a whole chukar over the course of three days and she had chicks yesterday, which I know DOC are not high in protein). Anyways maybe I am just freaking out, seeing as I lost my first bird and dont want to lose this one. She is molting and seems normal...can they just get "diarrhea" for a few days or is there something maybe wrong?

*Sorry for the long novel*

[meagan]

Mutes were mostly normal this morning and this evening around 9 when I got home from classes I noticed that they were back to being the runny color again...after she ate she sliced and it was green color with a tiny amount of orange...I am taking her into the vet tomorrow to get her checked out...she dropped two more secondaries today as well as a few other feathers....maybe I am just being a little crazy about this whole thing but I dont want to lost this bird as well...

[profalconer]

I know green mutes usually means either she has moved the food through her system, but can also be a sign of west nile virus. You might want to get a blood test

[meagan]

Thanks profalconer....yeah I am going to take her in today and see whats up. Her mute this morning was semi-normal, kind of runny but it held fecal matter in it. Last night though right before I went to bed I placed her in the GH and she sliced and the fecal part was a bright colored green with a tinge of orange and was kind of "booger" like in thickness and feeling....not sure on what could be going on and my boyfriend thinks I worry too much but I've already lost one bird and I dont want to lose this one as well...

[meagan]

Well took Autumn in today and the vet checked her out. He wants to want to do a blood sample as of right now saying that birds with WNV typically show signs dealing with the nervous system. Instead we did a fecal on my bird and it shows that she has a lung-worm problem. I told him I have already treated her with Ivermectin about two months ago and he went on and gave her another does directly into the breast muscle. He says that parasites can build up immunity to the drugs and if in a week her mutes are still runny to bring her back in and they are going to do other treatment methods on her. They also found a few cysts of another parasite (I cant remember the name). Anyways, I had to cast Autumn and she was not happy about that...lol....I feel much better taking her into the vet and hope that everything turns out for the best.